שְׁכֹבֶת
shechovet · lying (with)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7903 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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shechovet (שְׁכֹבֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lying (with)”.
Lying with someone; sexual relations.
How to say it
she·cho·vet
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Have sexual relations with someone.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- lie ×2
- has lain with you ×1
- lies ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Leviticus 18:20
And you shall not lie with the wife of your neighbor to emit semen, making yourself unclean with her.
- Leviticus 18:23
And you shall not lie with any beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before a beast to mate with it; it is perversion.
- Leviticus 20:15
And a man who lies with a beast shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the beast.
- Numbers 5:20
But if you, have gone astray while under the authority of your husband, and if you have made yourself unclean, and a man other than your husband has lain with you—’